Solitary Man

Vel vide Priapum vel lege Martialem.

squiz

Publish and be damned.

DCHindley

I'm not so sure about that, Roger.

To us here on the western end of the pond (well, at least to me), the ANF editors refusing to render the Latin into English just seemed to smack of prudishness, if not elitism. There was a certain stuffy-ness about the series. All that ranting and raving about "that certain Pettau" (presumably Pettavius) and the way Catholic scholars didn't truly understand the Fathers because they just didn't "get" reformation theology ... Keeping such matters in Latin will keep it out of vulgar hands.

What is ironic about that was the scholarship demonstrated in the ANF series was rather uncritical. What was being published in Germany made the scholarship of the Edinburgh editors, as well as the later editors, pale in comparison. But that was the wrong kind of protetestant scholarship, I suppose.

DCH

Vampyroteuthis

I checked out an old (1950's?) book translated from Suetonius that had parts edited out because of the graphic nature. Acts pertaining to Nero and Caligula. I could NOT believe it! How is that history?! I was deeply offended!

enlightend pagan

Rum, sodomy and the lash

Oppss, thought this thread was about the British navy

Vampyroteuthis

:rolling:

-Jay-

Considering what can be bought over the counter these days...

My dad had a copy of The Pearl (or via: amazon.co.uk) when I as a kid that I wasn't supposed to know about. There was some good Victorian era smut around...

Seriously though, I think the sorts of people who are likely to peruse translations of ancient texts probably wouldn't be shocked by what they'd find.

regards,

NinJay

Eldarion Lathria

It's wine, women and song in port, and rum, bum and bacca at sea.

Eldarion Lathria

Kharakov

Got my attention. If you could leak a copy to the religious right, they will promote it for you.

Roger Pearse

There is some interesting background on this, which I came across by accident. As issued, in the Ante-Nicene Christian Library, those volumes had very few notes, and were designed to appeal to a very wide audience. All those notes of 'elucidation'were composed by an American, A. Cleveland Coxe, second episcopalian bishop of New York, some twenty years later. He pirated the ANCL, rearranged the volumes (admittedly in a more logical manner), and composed the attacks on Roman Catholicism which festoon the series. I have read a pretty trenchant article in the Catholic Dublin Review at the time, commenting on his actions.

All the best,

Roger Pearse